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Pygmy Hog
Porcula salvania
The pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) is a critically endangered suid, previously spread across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal, but now only found in India (Assam). The current world population is about 150 individuals or fewer. Recent conservation measures have improved the prospects of survival in the wild of this critically endangered species.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 74936.